Keating Chambers

Rhodri Williams KC is recommended in the legal directories for public procurement, local government, and public and administrative law where he is described as a “very shrewd tactician” and an “advocate with strong powers of persuasion”. He was called to the UK Bar in 1987 and to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2009, and he took silk in 2010. Prior to joining Keating Chambers in October 2022, he was a member of Henderson Chambers in London and 30 Park Place Chambers in Wales.

Rhodri specialises in public procurement cases and clients report that he is “very good on really difficult complex cases and very strong on his feet.” A longstanding expert in the field, his experience includes representing the successful appellants in the first ever case concerning public procurement to be heard before the Supreme Court in Brent LBC v Risk Management Partners Ltd & London Authorities Mutual Ltd & Harrow LBC [2011] UKSC 7. More recently he was instructed in a claim for breach of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, concerning provision of orthodontic services during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In addition to public procurement, Rhodri also deals with a wide range of local government issues, including judicial review of post office closures, school re-organisation plans and school transport decisions. He handles cases involving both local and regional government, including advising the Welsh Government and other Government Departments and local authorities, in England, Wales and in Northern Ireland. In 2000, he was appointed to the Attorney General’s list of approved Counsel and to the list of the Counsel General to the National Assembly for Wales (subsequently Senedd Cymru/the Welsh Parliament) and has represented the United Kingdom Government on several occasions before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxemburg.

Keating Chambers, Barrister (2022) Henderson Chambers, Barrister (1999 – 2022) 30 Park Place Chambers, Barrister Welsh Government QC Panel (reappointed 2021) Legal Member of the Welsh Language Tribunal (2019-2024) Treasurer of the Wales and Chester Circuit (2017) Bencher of Gray’s Inn (2015) Queen’s Counsel (2010) Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland (2009)

Welsh, French, Italian, Spanish

Bar European Group; Administrative Law Bar Association; Procurement Lawyers’ Association; Public Law Wales.

BA Modern Languages (Oxon) 1985 (MA 2002) Dip Law (PCL) 1986 Bar Finals (ICSL) 1987